greatly
great·ly/ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/adverb
greatly is spelled G-R-E-A-T-L-Y, 2 syllables: great·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is greatley: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Greatly is an adverb meaning “To a great extent or degree”.
How many letters and syllables are in greatly?
| Letters | 7: G-R-E-A-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: great·ly |
| In writing | 21 times per million words; the 4,076th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, greatley, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell greatly?
Greatly is spelled G-R-E-A-T-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is greatly?
Greatly appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,076th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce greatly?
- /ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/
- UK /ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.liː/
- US /ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/
Greatly has 2 syllables, split great·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-greatly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of greatly
- more greatly comparative
- greater comparative
- greatlier comparative, rare
- most greatly superlative
- greatest superlative
- greatliest rare, superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does greatly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
To a great extent or degree.
Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.
- 2
archaicNobly; magnanimously.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Greatly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to a great extent or degree:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | grandement |
| Spanish | grandemente, enormemente, sobremanera |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does greatly come from?
Inherited from Middle English gretly. By surface analysis, great + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).